The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 22
‘I will then give you a riddle,’ he said; ‘if you guess it, you shall be free and out of my power.’
Who acts: I, One, you · What happens: give, say, guess, be · To what, where: riddle, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, One, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 riddle | det |
| 8 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 free | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 free | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 guess | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 guess | nsubj |
| 17 | guess | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 free | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 guess | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 guess | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 free | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 free | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 free | cop |
| 23 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 give | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 power | cc |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 power | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 power | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 power | nmod:poss |
| 28 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 free | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | a riddle | you | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient riddle=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | One | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | guess a condition, not said to happen | present | you | riddle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | shall | you | free property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/9/22/